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After Hours (1985)

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Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 4

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80

Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1

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A Manhattan Yuppie's night out becomes a comic nightmare, courtesy of director Martin Scorsese. Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette star in a "wild, funny and wonderful original" (Judith Crist) Year: 1985 Director: Martin Scorsese Starring: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom

R, 1 hr. 36 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Comedy

Joseph Minion

Aug 17, 2004

Warner Bros. Pictures

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All Critics (38) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (5) | DVD (12)

The result is a delirious and challenging comedy, a postmodern Ulysses in Nighttown.

January 25, 2010 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
TIME Magazine
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Anxiety-ridden picture would have been pretty funny if it didn't play like a confirmation of everyone's worst fears about contemporary urban life.

March 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comments (2)
Variety
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Scorsese's orchestration of thematic development, narrative structure, and visual style is stunning in its detail and fullness; this 1985 feature reestablished him as one of the very few contemporary masters of filmmaking.

March 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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After Hours is not, ultimately, a satisfying film, but it's often vigorously unsettling. In this season of homogenized pap, that should be read as praise.

August 30, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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This is the work of a master filmmaker who controls his effects so skillfully that I was drained by this film.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
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[Scorsese's] tendency toward hollow showboating has rarely been more in evidence ... Ends as a tolerable but annoyingly atonal exercise made by artists with little if anything on their minds.

July 7, 2011 Full Review Source: Nick's Flick Picks | Comment
Nick's Flick Picks

Martin Scorsese's take on NYC puts a hip spin on Joe Minion's cleverly constructed nightmare.

March 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

During the 80s there was a slew of yuppie revenge flicks where film-makers visited horrors on the heads of young urban professionals and this is probably the best of that mini-genre.

March 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

Inventive film-making of the first order.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

A SoHo version of Ulysses? A male rendition of Alice in Wonderland? In Scorsese's noir comedy, a bored, repressed Everyman becomes an alien in his own town, subjected to one surreal nightmare after another, mostly by women.

May 30, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

I love it for its unrelenting inventiveness, its constant motion and its curmudgeonly glass-half-empty outlook.

September 20, 2004 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

Scorsese's directing is at its best.

August 31, 2004 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A Kafkaesque drama about paranoia and urban living.

August 22, 2004 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | Comment
Spirituality and Practice

It's clever, but the movie is somehow duller than you'd expect a film to be with this kind of talent

August 19, 2004 Comment
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Audience Reviews for After Hours

Martin Scorsese's After Hours, it's a surreal and great black comedy, with a very good screenplay and actings. A film showing, that even in the most forgotten movie, Scorsese always is terrific.

December 30, 2011
Lucas Martins

Super Reviewer

Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) is your average 1980s New York yuppie. One night after work he has a chance encounter with a woman whom he makes a bit of a connection with. A little while later he decides to meet up with her in SoHo. As soon as he starts making his way to the neighborhood though, what should have been a

June 14, 2009
cosmo313
Chris Weber

Super Reviewer

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